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Faith that is sure of itself isn’t faith. Faith that is sure of God is the only faith there is.

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My experiences aren’t worth anything unless they keep me at the source, Jesus Christ.

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Try to get at people where they are, until they realize what they lack. Then erect the standard of Jesus Christ for their lives.

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As redemption creates the life of God in a human soul, it also creates the things belonging to that life, including a sense of needing the Lord.

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He asks us to meet these things head–on, not to be like jellyfish, floating along and saying, “Oh, well, it’s the Lord’s will.” Beware of drifting lazily before God instead of putting up a glorious fight so that you may lay hold of his strength.

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Always make a practice of challenging your mind to think out what it accepts easily. Our position is not truly ours until we make it ours by suffering. The author who benefits you isn’t the one who tells you something you didn’t know before; it’s the one who gives expression to the truth that has been struggling for utterance inside you.

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If you can’t clearly express your thoughts on a truth God has given you, struggle until you can. Otherwise, you’ll be unable to pass it on, and someone will be poorer for it all the days of his life.

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If you intercede without believing, you’ll wind up turning intercession into pointless sympathy. Sympathy never leads people to God; it only makes them more content to stay out of touch with him.

Confusion is always the result of an undisciplined spiritual nature.

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The natural life is not spiritual, and it can only be made spiritual by sacrifice. If we do not resolutely sacrifice the natural, the supernatural can never become natural in us.

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